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Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Kolbert

Published: 2006-12-26

Paperback: 240 pages

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Long known for her insightful and thought-provoking political journalism, author Elizabeth Kolbert now tackles the controversial and increasingly urgent subject of global warming. In what began as groundbreaking three-part series in the New Yorker, for which she won a National Magazine Awa...

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A Field of Darkness

by Cornelia Read

Published: 2007-07-11

Paperback: 336 pages

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Madeline Dare would be the first to tell you her money is so old there's none left. A former socialite from an aristocratic family in decline, Maddie is a tough-talking, would-be journalist exiled to the rust belt of upstate New York. Her prospects for changing her dreary lifestyle seem dim--until a...

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Fields of Fire

by James Webb

Published: 2001-08-28

Mass Market Paperback: 496 pages

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They each had their reasons for being a soldier.They each had their illusions. Goodrich came from Harvard. Snake got the tattoo ? Death Before Dishonor ? before he got the uniform. And Hodges was haunted by the ghosts of family heroes.They were three young men from different worlds plunged...

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Fieldwork

by Bruce Jackson

Published: 1987-02-01

Paperback: 328 pages

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Fieldwork: A Novel

by Mischa Berlinski

Published: 2008-01-22

Paperback: 356 pages

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When his girlfriend takes a job in Thailand, Mischa Berlinski goes along for the ride, planning to enjoy himself and work as little as possible. But one evening a fellow expatriate tips him off to a story: a charismatic American anthropologist, Martiya van der Leun, has been found dead--a ...

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* * Dark,
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Fierce Attachments: A Memoir

by Vivian Gornick

Published: 2005-09-14

Paperback: 216 pages

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In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's grou...

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* * Slow,
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Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

by Tom Robbins

Published: 2001-05-29

Paperback: 464 pages

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Switters is a contradiction for all seasons: an anarchist who works for the government; a pacifist who carries a gun; a vegetarian who sops up ham gravy; a cyberwhiz who hates computers; a man who, though obsessed with the preservation of innocence, is aching to deflower his high-school-ag...

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* * * * Interesting,
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A Fierce Radiance: A Novel (P.S.)

by Lauren Belfer

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 560 pages

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A Washington Post Best Novel of the Year An NPR Mystery of the Year In the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, Life photojournalist Claire Shipley finds herself covering one of the nation's most important stories. At New York City's renowned Rockefeller Institute, researchers are racing t...

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A Fierce Radiance: A Novel (P.S.)

by Lauren Belfer

Published: 2011-03-29

Paperback: 560 pages

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A Washington Post Best Novel of the Year An NPR Mystery of the Year In the anxious days after Pearl Harbor, Life photojournalist Claire Shipley finds herself covering one of the nation's most important stories. At New York City's renowned Rockefeller Institute, researchers are racing t...

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Fierce: A Memoir

by Barbara Robinette Moss

Published: 2004-09-21

Hardcover: 256 pages

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From the award-winning author of Change Me into Zeus's Daughter comes this compelling memoir about a single mother determined to break the patterns that she has been taught.Barbara Robinette Moss grew up in the red clay hills of Alabama, the fourth of eight children, in a childhood defined...